Episode 7: Our Bariatric Surgery Full Experience. Part 1: Post-Op

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Asta, hello.

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Welcome back to another episode of Bariatric Banter podcast.

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Love it.

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Featuring Bo.

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He's so cute.

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Yeah.

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He's decided he's going to be joining the podcast this week.

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Love it.

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He's always welcome.

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Yes.

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He likes to crash in this office.

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He's a, listen, he is a stay at home.

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I'm a work from home person, so he's not used to being by himself.

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That's okay.

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Mine is literally like, I can see his nails under the door of my office right now and

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I can like hear him just going.

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Yeah.

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Well, it's easier to have him in here than it's to, than to leave him out because then

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the cat fights him and then he gets all sad.

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So he's here everybody.

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Bo is part of the podcast.

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We're keeping it real guys.

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We're keeping it.

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This is real life.

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What we do with every real life.

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Welcome.

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Welcome to episode seven, I think of bariatric banter podcast.

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Today we, I know we're still here guys.

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Today we are going to talk about surgery.

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We're going to go like all in on our surgeries from orientation to actual surgery to post-op.

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We're going to talk about what the clinic's like, what the program's like, what it's like

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for anybody who's kind of curious and interested.

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Our likes are dislikes.

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Welcome to the all surgery episode.

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We've got a lot of questions about like the actual, I'll say physical surgery.

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Yes.

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A lot of questions.

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People are curious about the process and about like the why, but a lot of people want to

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know the juicy like, what was the actual, what was it like?

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What was it actually like?

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And it's like, well, all right, well, that's what we're going to talk about today because

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yeah, we get an awful lot of questions because we do have a lot of people that are interested

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in going into surgery that are kind of hesitant.

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I think once you know someone and like, you know, know them, it could be, I could be a

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close friend.

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I could be like a colleague of a colleague.

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I have people in like all the rings asking me questions about this.

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The people that have come out of the woodwork and sent me messages has been, it's great

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thing.

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This is why we did it, right?

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We want to help and answer questions.

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But it's crazy how many people have had this on their mind and for whatever reason have

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never gone down.

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So now it's almost like, well, I know someone so it's almost easier now.

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I can be like, hey, don't worry family.

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Don't worry husband.

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Don't worry XYZ.

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Like I know someone and I'm going to get all the info.

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I didn't know anybody who chose to do this, but it's surprising when you talk about it

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because it's like, well, I know someone.

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Do you want me to introduce you to that person?

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So I still think it's a small network that's growing of people who had the surgery.

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So we're happy to be able to talk to people about it.

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We had a really lovely person reach out who had PCOS that discovered our podcast who was

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like, oh my gosh, like thank you so much for talking about this.

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Cause I just felt like I had no idea where to start with my doctor.

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So that's, that's our goal is to just tell you what our experience was like and break

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it down.

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So we're going to dive into it, we'll talk all about surgery.

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This, this podcast, for those who don't know, Stefan, I had surgery at the exact same clinic.

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It was the Guelph bariatric clinic.

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I'm sure the name is not, yeah, I'm sure that's not the name of it, but yeah, we had, we had

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our surgery at the Guelph bariatric clinic.

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Our surgeon was exactly the same.

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Everybody else was kind of different.

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Oh, our internal medicine doctor, he was the same.

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Yes, our dietitians and social workers and those people were all different.

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All different.

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Our internal medicine and surgeon were the same.

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Were the same.

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Now you're not allowed to request a surgeon, but I did tell stuff like, yeah, you should

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really ask for this doctor if you can.

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If there's somebody that, you know, I would like to have, the first nurse right away was

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shot me down, she's like, nope, it's just a rotation and I was like, okay, fair.

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I get it.

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Cause I think there's four, five, four, five, anyway.

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Four or five.

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Yeah.

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I can't remember.

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I can't remember.

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And then as I was getting closer, it was almost like my last appointment, one of the very

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last ones.

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And I, and I kept like sneaking you into the conversation about how I knew somebody you

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went to go up.

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I know.

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And I would constantly say how, you know, she said so many great things about her surgeon.

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And so then the nurse was like, oh, well, that's really good to hear.

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And I said, so I said, you know, I know I'm not allowed to like request a specific surgeon,

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but is there any way that I could, you know, like just put a note in there?

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She laughed.

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She's like, who is it?

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And so I told her and she laughed.

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She goes, everybody wants him.

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And I said, well, I've heard nothing but good things.

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And sure enough, who I got.

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Oh, like he honestly, absolutely wonderful.

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My mom who is a retired nurse came with me and like pretty, when you can impress her,

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it's good because like she's obviously worked with doctors and surgeons and has kind of

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like a jaded view on them because to be honest, nurses do majority of the work for sexual

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ill credit, but she was like, oh, he's good.

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Like he's good.

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He's very good.

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And they, you know, they joked about a bunch of stuff together and just, yeah, they had

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a good time.

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So yeah, I was, I was quite impressed with this surgeon, but yeah, just so everyone knows,

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we had our surgeries in Canada.

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We had it from the same clinic.

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We had the exact same surgeon.

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And so this is going to be very funny because we were one year apart having surgery and

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our experiences totally different.

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Like you would, we went to separate clinics.

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Yeah, it's so different.

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So yeah, let's, I think the best place to start from my perspective is the orientation

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because there's a lot of people listening, especially Americans who are like, I have

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no idea what you're talking about.

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This is not what it's like where I'm from.

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And it's like, yes, absolutely.

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This is unique to, this is unique to Canada.

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This is unique to specifically our location because we'll also highlight a clinic that's

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an hour away from us that is completely different than the clinic that we went to, which is

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shocking.

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Same province, literally same distance as the other one.

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Vastly different.

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Couldn't be more different than what we went through.

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So orientation, that is the first, the very first step in your surgical process is you've

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already talked to your doctor.

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They need to recommend you for surgery in Canada.

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I will just say in Canada, in the States, you can go pay for it at private clinics.

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In Canada, you do need to be recommended and referred by your doctor.

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So your doctor sends in this referral.

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You usually don't get to pick where you go.

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At least at the time I was not given the option.

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He just said, Guelph and I said, yep.

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Yep.

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That's like, I was just thinking like, that's the hospital that offers it.

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That's closest.

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In my mind, I didn't know that there was, there was a program and a clinic.

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I literally thought he was just saying Guelph is the only hospital that does this type of

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surgery.

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Are you cool to go to that hospital?

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And I was like, yeah, okay, sure.

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Had I known that there were other choices, I don't know if that would have impacted things,

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but we'll get to that later.

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So I was recommended.

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He sends in the referral.

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You sit and wait, and then somebody calls you and says, okay, it's time for orientation.

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I think that was the same for you, if I'm not mistaken.

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I went to the doctor.

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She same thing.

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She said Guelph.

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I didn't know there were others.

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I also just assumed Guelph was the place to go, but it is the closest to me.

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So that was a positive.

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But no, I was the same thing.

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She sent in the referral and she said, I'm not sure exactly what the wait time is, but

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they'll contact you.

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Okay.

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And I got an email saying, welcome to the clinic.

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Here is your orientation details and date.

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Same thing here.

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Oh yeah.

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So I should point out, I was still under COVID protocols, which was kind of funny.

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So I was still under COVID protocols when it came to my surgery.

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So everything was virtual and they told me that upfront, right?

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Because we're still masking and limiting how many people can come in.

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But then the funny thing is fast forward to Steph doing surgery when there is no protocols

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left and it's still all virtual.

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So your orientation will be online.

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It will be like going on a webinar, going on a Zoom call.

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You'll enter it and the whole purpose of orientation is exactly what it sounds like.

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We are going to cover the different types of surgery, what this looks like, what the

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next steps would be like.

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And if you're still interested, what you have to do to then officially kind of say, yes,

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we'd like to be in this program, which I think was like blood work.

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Blood work, ECG, EKG, I always get them mixed up.

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I think they're the same thing.

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If they're not, somebody tell me.

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The little sticky things, blood work, that.

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And I think there was like a form, like a health history questionnaire thing you had

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to fill out.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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You had to put some of your measurements in your weight and that would, and if you possibly

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needed a sleep study at some point, like you filled in all those questionnaires and you

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sent those.

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Yes.

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Now that you talk, now that you mention it, yes.

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So you had to, yeah, fill in a questionnaire.

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You had to get blood work done and send that in.

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And if you got that all sent in, then you were officially enrolled in the program, which

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was kind of great because it, you know, it let you make that decision and then move on

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from there, orientation was, was really basic.

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Like there wasn't really many questions during orientation because I think everybody was

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just very like, okay.

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There's another call that will, that comes up throughout this progress where yeah, the

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questions were a flowing, but in the orientation, it's very much just, okay, there's different

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types of surgery.

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To be truthful, a lot of this, you'll probably know because most of us have Googled it before

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we even went to our doctor to say, I'd like to go do this, but they cover the types of

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surgery.

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They let you know that it's fully covered by OHIP.

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So in Canada, you don't pay, you don't pay for this surgery.

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It is covered regardless if you have, you know, it's covered by OHIP.

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So it doesn't go through your personal insurance either.

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So then they kind of just go over, here's all the different things, you know, there

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might be a liquid diet.

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You'll have to do this.

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You'll have to do that.

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If you're interested, like it will be a long process.

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They do lay out.

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It will be eight plus months and that eight months is considered fast track.

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Like it will take a while.

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There is no jumping ahead.

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You aren't going to get a call and be like, oh my God, five months, here you go.

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It's going to take, it's going to take most of you one year at a minimum, I'd say 11 months

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from the time you start orientation to the time you have surgery.

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Do not expect it to move faster than 11 months.

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It's probably going to take you that long for good reason.

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We're going to cover why.

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So you get into orientation, you decide, you know what?

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I am going to go into this program.

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Awesome.

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You have a rec for blood work.

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You have to fill out a little form.

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You have to do an EKG ECG.

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You have to just kind of get a bare bones basics and you send that in.

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And then you sit and wait a guess and again and again.

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And then eventually somebody reaches out and says, congratulations are in the program.

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You know, just so you know, next steps are going to be, you will talk with a nurse, you'll,

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you're going to talk with a dietician and you're going to talk with a social worker

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and that's going to be your first step.

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And that I think for most people was, I want to say two months after orientation.

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That's three, two, three months depending.

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And the, they're, they're spread out.

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I think mine were probably spread out around like two weeks, two to three weeks in between

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each one.

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Oh yes.

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It's it wasn't all three at once for this first one going forward.

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After that point, it was all of them in the same day.

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But yeah, they were spread out.

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For me again, they were still 100% virtual at this point.

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I was not going in to see anyone.

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So at this stage, your first initial call, let's start with the dietician.

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So for me, the first initial call with the dietician, she did email in advance and say,

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I need you to keep a two week food journal.

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I need you to send that two week food journal in no later than a week before our appointment.

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And that's what we're going to talk about on your call.

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So that's what I did.

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I kept a two week food journal.

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Now there's no, they don't give you any guidelines at this point.

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This is just kind of like the initial, let's see where you're at for me.

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Yeah.

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For me, that's what it was.

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It was just, there was no restrictions or guidelines at this point.

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It was, let's just see where you're at.

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So I did my two week food journal that includes like all medication, what time you're eating,

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where you're eating, what you're drinking.

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Like they want to know basically your whole snapshot.

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I send it in.

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I meet with the dietician and we go over line by line.

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Like she is asking, okay, so on this day, I see that you ate at your desk.

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Is it normal that you're going to eat at your desk?

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They want to know how long does a meal last for you from start to finish?

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Are you grazing?

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Are you snacking?

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When do you eat when you first get up?

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When do you eat before you go to bed?

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How many hours are you sleeping?

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They are going to ask and want to know literally everything about your lifestyle and habits

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and eating patterns at this point.

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They're going to ask about exercise at this point.

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She's diving into everything.

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She's going to ask about, okay, so I see that you said that you had chicken with vegetables.

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How'd you cook it?

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Did you fry it?

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Did it have oil?

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What type of oil are you using?

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What's the amount of oil you put in the pan?

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Do you know roughly how much food you were eating?

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Are you eating off 12 inch plates?

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Do you know?

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But they're going to, they ask everything.

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Now it's okay at this meeting to be like, oh, I'm not sure if it's a 12 inch plate.

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That's okay.

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We're just checking.

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I recommend starting to eat off smaller plates and blah, blah, blah.

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There's no shame.

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There was no judgment at this one.

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They were just asking all of these things.

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At the end of this call was when I started getting dietary restrictions.

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Okay, great.

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Here's what we'd like to see you do between now and the next time we talk.

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I want you to try eating this much protein.

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I want you to start cutting out this.

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I want like, it wasn't calorie restrictions.

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It wasn't macro restrictions.

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It was more, can you try to cut out some of the sugar and processed food?

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Can you try to make sure you're eating three meals a day?

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Really track your water, really watch your protein.

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Can you start adhering to some guidelines?

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For me, that's what I was left with at the end was here are things we want to see you

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do over the next three months before we meet again.

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Yep.

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Yeah, and it was a lot of, like you said, not saying calories or macros by any means.

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It was a lot of, can you try to work more fiber into these meals?

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Can you make sure that each meal has a protein, a fat, a carb?

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Can you try and swap out some of these carbs for healthier carbs?

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It was more, let's try and make some tweaks.

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Can you?

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This is one we'll get into later.

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Can you take the protein shake out every morning in your protein coffee?

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That was a big one.

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And then it was do that for X number of weeks.

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And then we submit your journal again and we'll review it on our next call.

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Yeah, I forgot about that one too.

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Because I had obviously in advance decided I was going to start buying and doing stuff

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and they were like, we want you to cut out the protein drink.

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We don't want you to do that.

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Don't be eating those protein bars just yet.

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The other big thing for me anyway, when I went into the program was you need to cut

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out alcohol.

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You need to cut out completely from the moment you're in orientation.

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And if you're a smoker, you need to stop smoking as well.

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And if you are eating certain things, like if you're pre-diabetic or your blood work

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show, because they obviously see your blood work as well.

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So if they see things like that, they'll also say, hey, we need to see you cut down on this

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and cut down on this and cut down on this.

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The big thing for me was you need to not be drinking alcohol.

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And there is no ifs, ands, or buts about that for our program.

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You must stop drinking alcohol from the minute you enter orientation.

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Same thing here.

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Yeah.

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And that's important.

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There's a reason because alcoholism is very, very high in the bariatric community because

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it's called transfer addiction.

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Because your stomach is smaller, because you get drunk quicker.

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It becomes pretty addicting.

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But it leads to a high, high, high rate of people becoming alcoholics.

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So I have never gone back to having alcohol.

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I have not had a drop since November 2022 when I entered the program.

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I have not either.

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's just empty calories for me at this point.

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So that's your dietitian, your first dietitian.

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The nurse, very similar.

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Hey, saw your blood work, see where you're at.

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I'm going to need you to increase your vitamin D. They're basically going to look at your

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levels and they're going to start making recommendations to start to balance those levels ahead of

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surgery.

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So for me personally, my vitamin D was low.

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And she looked at it and said, you're going to go on a prescription vitamin D. We need

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to get your levels here.

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So I'm going to need to see you start doing that.

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And we need to see you start tapering off some of the medication.

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I was on blood pressure and cholesterol.

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We had to start getting those levels a bit lower medication wise because two weeks before

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surgery I had to be off all medication.

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So she's like, we have to start making choices that keep your blood pressure balanced, but

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get you down to the lowest dose we can get you to so that your body will be okay during

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surgery.

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So the nurse was very much just focused on blood work and your current levels and making

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suggestions on vitamins, minerals, supplements that we needed and medication.

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For me anyway, sorry, that's what it was.

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Yep.

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I think the only thing missing that I had was focusing in on family history.

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Oh yes.

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Yeah.

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And what, especially if you had like cardiac issues in your family or anything like high

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blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, that kind of thing.

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And then just in overall, how's your health doing?

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Any concerns, anything come up from?

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How you feeling?

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Have you ever had strokes?

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Have you ever been pregnant?

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Have you ever done this?

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Have you ever done that?

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Like, yeah, again, it's like a physical, what will differ for all of you than it did for

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Stef and I is like, if you are on medication, if you have any illnesses or diseases, if

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you're diabetic, if you're suffering from, I don't know, afibrillation, if you're on

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medication for mental health disorders, like all of these things, you'll obviously spend

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more time talking to your nurse about.

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They will not cut you out of surgery.

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I think I said this in one of our earlier podcasts, you won't be excluded from surgery.

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They will work and make a plan that fits around you.

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And I don't want anyone to panic who might be on like mental health medication and think,

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oh my God, I have to come off of that.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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They will work with you to figure it out.

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I had to come off of my medication because of the risks of like bleeding and things that

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would happen.

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So we, for my medical team, we worked on things.

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They will not just, they will not throw your body out of whack.

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Just know that.

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They will work with you.

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You will be removed from surgery if you refuse to stop smoking and drinking though.

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So just full stop.

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You will not have this surgery if you cannot stop doing those things because they don't

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feel the investment is worth it because you're at a very, very high risk for a lot of complications

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if you're a smoker.

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So that includes weed, folks.

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I had to switch to gummies and then also I wasn't really allowed to have those either.

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But yeah, that includes smoking joints, guys.

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So any form of inhalation.

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Yes, but be prepared.

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Like weed is a, they just don't want you on that.

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It can cause you to overeat.

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It's not great.

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So there was a lot of people that asked about like oil and edibles.

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So I also don't do that anymore because it is a slippery slope and I was eating more

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than I should.

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So anyway, I digress.

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That's going to be your first meeting with the nurse and just know that they are busy

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and seeing many, many, many people.

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So there's a good chance they just got your file that morning.

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They have to ask what your current weight is, what your height is.

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They have to collect a lot of info and you won't have the same nurse every call.

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So don't expect them to know, oh, Steph, hey, like they're not going to remember who you

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are.

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Be honest with these people.

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I cannot stress enough.

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There is no point in lying to these people at all.

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If you want to be successful, be honest.

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If you have a disease, if you have an issue, if you have concerns, tell them.

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You will not be kicked out of this program.

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But if you lie to them, you are only hurting yourself.

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Just be honest.

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The next person you talk to, social worker.

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A lot of people ask us this question, why?

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Why do I have to talk to a social worker?

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For those who don't know, that's a therapist in Canada.

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Okay.

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You're talking to a therapist.

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You're not talking to a psychiatrist, which is the like highest level of like mental health

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care doctors we have.

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You're talking to a social worker, which is still incredibly talented at mental health.

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They just can't prescribe medication.

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That's kind of, I believe, the difference between a social worker therapist and a psychiatrist.

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Usually psychiatrists are like medically recommended and there's a long wait list to get in to

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see them.

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So you'll see a social worker.

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Super important because there's a reason that we're going into this program.

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And it's probably because we suffer from emotional eating, binge eating, making bad choices

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wrong choices, but also this is mentally a large change to your life as well.

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That can cause body dysmorphia.

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You might not have the support.

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This meeting was all about, have you told your friends and family?

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Do you feel like you have support?

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Why do you think you got to this point?

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I talked to the dietician and I can see your eating patterns.

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How are we going to combat that?

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Do you feel prepared to handle emotional eating and to handle transfer addictions?

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Basically, she asks you questions to gauge if she truly believes that you are mentally

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ready for this surgery.

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For me anyway, that's what it was.

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And it was all about my support system, my reasons for wanting to do this, what my biggest

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outcomes were that I was looking for and was I truly prepared for what this entailed.

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They want to make sure that you are going to be able to handle everything that's going

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to be thrown at you because there are people that will get kicked out of this program.

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The number of people that were in my orientation were definitely not the number of people that

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were in my final appointment.

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And for me, a lot of the questions were, how are you going to manage this with a family

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at home who is not doing this program?

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How are you going to manage, because I usually make dinner, how are you going to manage making

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dinner for your family when you cannot have it?

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How are you going to manage them eating things that you cannot eat?

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How are you going to have that conversation with your children around why you're doing

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what you're doing?

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Because as Hannah and I have said, there are a lot of physical components that come with

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this surgery and this program.

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But I would argue that the majority of it is mental.

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And I will be the first to admit, I am not the same person that I was at the start of

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this program.

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I am not the same person that I was three months ago when I came out of surgery from

486
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,040
this program.

487
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:10,640
There is a big mental shift, personality shift, thought process shift, perspective of the

488
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,780
world shift.

489
00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:15,520
And they need to make sure you're ready for that because that is the biggest component

490
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:16,520
in my life.

491
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:17,520
It is.

492
00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:18,520
Yep.

493
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:24,200
And for me, it was, are you going to be able to do this living by yourself?

494
00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:25,920
Do you have friends that are going to support you?

495
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,840
Are you concerned about telling anyone?

496
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,920
At the time, there were people I was concerned about.

497
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:31,920
What have been the reactions?

498
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:37,840
And I talked about some of my friends that negatively reacted just kind of out of, again,

499
00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:44,720
I've said this before, subliminally not being happy that they were now the fat friend.

500
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,600
And then it was like, yeah, can you do this by yourself?

501
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:47,600
Do you feel confident?

502
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,160
Do you feel like you've got this?

503
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,520
And then the big thing was why?

504
00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,560
Why are you doing this?

505
00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,320
And the answer could not be because I want to look skinny.

506
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,200
They were really trying to dig into, are you prepared?

507
00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,680
And they were very adamant to, well, what's your goal weight?

508
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,480
The first person to ask about goal weight for me was the social worker.

509
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,560
What's your goal weight?

510
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,560
And I said my goal weight.

511
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,920
She said, well, what happens if you don't hit that goal weight?

512
00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:17,080
And I said, well, she really is asking the hard questions to kind of gauge mentally,

513
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:19,560
will you be prepared if you don't succeed with this?

514
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,080
Mentally are you prepared for how long that this is going to take?

515
00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,080
Are you in a good head space to begin with?

516
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,680
And they won't kick you out if you're not, they're going to work with you.

517
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,120
But you have to be able to handle a big, big thing.

518
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:38,280
I just remember during this call was the first three months are going to be different.

519
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,760
She never said rough, but she said different.

520
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,400
She said your hormones will be all over the place.

521
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,760
Because you are in a massive deficit, you're losing crazy amounts of weight, you just had

522
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,300
major surgery.

523
00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:50,720
Are you prepared for this?

524
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,880
And that could be kind of scary because I was like, oh, I would like my mental health

525
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,280
to stay where it's at.

526
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:57,280
Thank you very much.

527
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,680
Like, I don't think I want to be dealing with mood swings and depression and anxiety and

528
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,680
all this stuff.

529
00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,900
And now it's obviously not at a level that's like, you know, you're not dealing with clinical

530
00:26:07,900 --> 00:26:12,340
depression and anxiety, but it's like your hormones are all over.

531
00:26:12,340 --> 00:26:14,320
You can ask Devin, it's not a simple.

532
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:15,320
Yeah.

533
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,240
And she's like, are you prepared to handle that?

534
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,880
And again, it's just that they're trying to prepare you like, don't be afraid.

535
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:21,880
Don't be alarmed.

536
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:22,880
This is normal.

537
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:27,040
Oh, and it was the first three months were not brutal in any way, but I was like, holy

538
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,800
Christ, I'm all over the place.

539
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,320
But now I can say that my mental health has never been better in my whole entire fucking

540
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,440
life.

541
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,520
And then she also asked about work.

542
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:38,720
That was a big one.

543
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:39,880
Will you take time off?

544
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,140
How much will you take off?

545
00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:42,240
Have you told work?

546
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,240
Are you prepared again?

547
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:44,240
Because I was single.

548
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,960
I am single still.

549
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,680
Are you prepared to handle your recovery by yourself?

550
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,280
So that's again, that's a lot of what your first meeting with the social worker would

551
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:53,280
be.

552
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:54,680
Be honest with them as well.

553
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:55,860
And do not be afraid.

554
00:26:55,860 --> 00:26:58,700
They're not asking because they're trying to scare you out of this.

555
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:01,640
If anything, they want you to say, wow, that that kind of scares me.

556
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,640
I don't know.

557
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,640
I didn't think so.

558
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:04,640
Let's work on it.

559
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,220
They're trying to figure out where do they need to give you the most help.

560
00:27:08,220 --> 00:27:09,480
And that's why they're asking.

561
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:16,440
They want to know where can we make you feel comfortable, supported and helped.

562
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,560
So that's your first initial call.

563
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,960
You will have these calls pretty much every three months.

564
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:24,440
You will be meeting with the same three people, not the same three people, but the same three

565
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:25,440
jobs.

566
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,280
You'll be meeting with the nurse, the dietitian and the social worker.

567
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,700
And they will continue to ask these questions and continue to touch base, continue to see

568
00:27:32,700 --> 00:27:34,880
where you're at, track your progress.

569
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:40,280
Your dietitian will ask you to continuously still make changes as you get closer to surgery.

570
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,720
You're going to be on kind of like a diet.

571
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,800
It's not going to be super restrictive, but the closer you get to surgery, the more they're

572
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,200
going to say, we want to see lean protein.

573
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,200
We want to see this.

574
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,200
We want to see this.

575
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:52,200
We want to see that.

576
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,560
The closer you get, they want to get you to a certain protein level and then see, can

577
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:57,960
you stick with that?

578
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,320
They're not going to be like, oh my God, Stephanie, we said 80 grams of protein and you're not

579
00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:03,320
doing it.

580
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,320
You're out of the program.

581
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,240
What we're trying to do is say, this is what life is going to be like after the program

582
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,680
and we want to get you in the mindset now.

583
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,840
More habits you can build up front, the better.

584
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:17,520
We just want you to get in that mindset and in those habits and thinking the way that

585
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:22,240
you need to think post-surgery as early ahead as they can.

586
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:23,240
Correct.

587
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,700
So remember, this is a year roughly that you're in this program.

588
00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:30,220
So almost every three months, you're going to be meeting with this team.

589
00:28:30,220 --> 00:28:32,800
You'll be doing blood work every three months without fail.

590
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,680
Doesn't matter if you have the most perfect blood work in the world, you will continuously

591
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,880
be doing blood work because they need to see where you at.

592
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,360
Be prepared that you'll be on vitamin D or things because they need to get your levels

593
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,360
up.

594
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,960
It won't stop you from having surgery, but I had to get on prescription vitamin D. I

595
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,320
was on 10,000 units a day because they were like, get this fucking up.

596
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:53,320
Crank it up.

597
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:58,400
So those are the people that you'll meet with the most often throughout pre and post.

598
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,520
You'll also meet with the internal medicine doctor.

599
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:06,600
This person's whole job is to again, deep dive into your health, your history, and then

600
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:11,120
they will assign you to the appropriate surgeon.

601
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,400
This was in person.

602
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,760
This was one of my only in-person appointments.

603
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,040
Everything else was virtual by the way.

604
00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,400
And not even virtual, sorry, it was a phone call.

605
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:24,440
So you do not see these people virtually.

606
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,280
So then you see your internal medicine doctor and he goes over what medication are you on?

607
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:29,280
What's your family history?

608
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,120
You know, I'm going to take your blood pressure.

609
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,120
I'm going to weigh you.

610
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:33,200
I'm going to do all this stuff.

611
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,400
And he dives deep.

612
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:36,640
He does not want to shoot the shit.

613
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,680
He doesn't want to talk about anything except your fucking family history and your current

614
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:41,680
medical history.

615
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:42,880
And he will ask the questions.

616
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:43,880
Don't ramble.

617
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:44,880
Don't go off topic.

618
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,280
Like he's got this like methodical away we go and he's going to be taking notes the whole

619
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:50,800
time he's looking at you.

620
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,440
He's going to get you to walk around the hall.

621
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:53,440
That was really funny.

622
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,480
Go, I need to see you walk up and down the hall.

623
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,200
Then take your blood pressure again.

624
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,760
He does all of it.

625
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,080
And then he says, okay, I'm going to go assign you to a surgeon.

626
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,080
This was great.

627
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,080
He told me I want you off this medication.

628
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,120
I want you off this medication.

629
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,520
You'll see him closer to surgery.

630
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:11,960
So he'll take you off your medication.

631
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,920
He'll say, you know, you're going to be on a two week liquid diet.

632
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,320
I don't have the date yet.

633
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,000
But you know, when I do or no, yes, he didn't tell me he did.

634
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,540
He went through everything you just said.

635
00:30:23,540 --> 00:30:25,160
And then he went through.

636
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,000
He went made me bring all my supplements.

637
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,000
Yeah.

638
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000
He made me bring all my supplements.

639
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000
And so he's sitting there.

640
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:34,760
And as Hannah said, he's taking tons of notes.

641
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,680
He would pick up the supplement container and go, what's this for?

642
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,640
And I would tell him, he literally be like garbage.

643
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,640
Yeah.

644
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:44,440
And then he would be like, what's this for?

645
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,400
And I would tell him, he'd go, okay.

646
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,400
He was hilarious.

647
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,200
So after he's like, if you want to take these, that's fine.

648
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,000
But they're not going to do anything for you.

649
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,000
Waste of time.

650
00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:00,240
He's like, okay, he's like the whole and you come back and he like redictates all of

651
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:04,160
his notes verbally into a microphone.

652
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,400
So you have to be very quiet when you come back in.

653
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:12,360
So then you walk the hall and you hook yourself up to the oxygen.

654
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,800
And you just sit there like in this awkward moment while he's dictating all this stuff

655
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:19,080
about you into the microphone.

656
00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:23,320
And I remember sitting there trying to be calm because I wanted my numbers to be good.

657
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,760
But I was also trying to listen to everything he was saying about me.

658
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,640
But it was terms that I don't understand.

659
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,040
So then I remember like in my head, I'm like, remember that, remember that.

660
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,000
So that I could get in after and start Googling, what does this mean?

661
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
What did he say?

662
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000
I didn't remember shit.

663
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,000
I was like, what don't I do?

664
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,000
What?

665
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,000
But it was fine.

666
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:42,000
Like everything was fine.

667
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Oh, it was all good.

668
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,000
Yeah.

669
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,000
I thought he was going to name my surgeon.

670
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,000
He didn't.

671
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:47,000
It was so funny.

672
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,000
It was so funny.

673
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,960
My numbers were sky high, but he did the same thing to me.

674
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,680
He was like, why are you on this?

675
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,760
And I was like, well, a cardiologist said that you wouldn't do surgery unless I was

676
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:55,760
on this.

677
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,600
And he was like, don't be on this.

678
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,120
And then the cardiologist was like, who the fuck is he?

679
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,360
And I was like, I don't know, man.

680
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,560
I'm just saying he told me I don't need to be on this.

681
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,880
So I'm not going to be on it.

682
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,880
He's funny as shit.

683
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,200
God, I love him.

684
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:10,200
So then there.

685
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:11,880
So that's your internal medicine doctor.

686
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,360
The reason I was confused is because there is one more in person.

687
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,360
I fucking nevermind.

688
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:17,360
I remember now.

689
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,360
Okay.

690
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:19,720
Then you meet the surgeon.

691
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:25,200
So you see your internal medicine doctor and this is probably the final yes or no as to

692
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,240
whether or not you can have surgery.

693
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,240
Yeah.

694
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,880
You probably meet the internal medicine doctors six months out.

695
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:31,880
Six.

696
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:32,880
Yeah.

697
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,480
Five, five to six months out.

698
00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,160
Cause I remember asking you like seven fucking times when you saw him.

699
00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,760
So about five ish months before you're actually going to have surgery, you'll see the internal

700
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:43,760
medicine doctor.

701
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,760
So don't get excited.

702
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,400
Oh my God, I met him.

703
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,320
He gives you the final.

704
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,000
He gives you the actual approval for surgery.

705
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,000
Correct.

706
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,560
And assigns your surgeon through all of those nurse, dietician, social worker meetings again.

707
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,600
So you're really excited because you're like, Oh, I met him.

708
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:00,600
I met him.

709
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,600
No, no, no, no.

710
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:02,600
Calm down.

711
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:03,600
Calm your excitement.

712
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:04,600
You got another six months.

713
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:05,600
Yeah.

714
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,600
He's just approving you for around two.

715
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:07,600
You're halfway.

716
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,320
You're halfway in the process.

717
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,400
So you meet with him or her or whoever the hell you're going to meet with.

718
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,580
And again, this was just our Guelph bariatric program.

719
00:33:16,580 --> 00:33:20,040
Every other program is insanely different and some move in like months.

720
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:21,240
Ours takes a year.

721
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:22,240
So you meet with him.

722
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:26,160
He assigns your surgeon and then you go back to your just meetings with the social worker

723
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,760
dietician nurse and you wait and you wait and you wait.

724
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,680
And then, then you get the call that don't call them.

725
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:33,940
They'll call you.

726
00:33:33,940 --> 00:33:35,480
But then you get the call.

727
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:36,480
Yeah.

728
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:39,080
Hey, Hannah, we have a surgery date for you.

729
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,480
It's time to book your surgeon appointment.

730
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:42,720
And it's like, what the fuck?

731
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,120
And they're like, we're thinking, thinking sometime in March.

732
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,760
They still won't give you the date on the phone.

733
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:48,880
They'll say, we have a date for you.

734
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,760
We're not telling you, but we need you to come in and meet the surgeon.

735
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:57,920
So that was meeting the surgeon was, I believe, a month and a half before my surgery, if I'm

736
00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:58,920
not mistaken.

737
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,780
I went in, you meet with the nurse, but you see the surgeon for like a half a second.

738
00:34:02,780 --> 00:34:06,640
You meet with the nurse and the nurse is going to do the almost the same thing doctor, the

739
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,160
internal medicine doctor did.

740
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:09,200
Walk the hall.

741
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:10,240
Let's look at stuff.

742
00:34:10,240 --> 00:34:11,240
Here's the blood work.

743
00:34:11,240 --> 00:34:13,660
We had, you have to do blood work before this meeting.

744
00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:14,660
Let's go over your diet.

745
00:34:14,660 --> 00:34:18,640
Like she basically acts as nurse, social worker and dietitian and goes over everything and

746
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:19,640
makes notes.

747
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:20,640
And then she goes, congratulations.

748
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:21,840
You have Dr. Matt.

749
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:23,480
And I was like, okay, don't know who that is.

750
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,560
And she's like, you're going to go over and meet Dr. Matt.

751
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:26,660
He's next door.

752
00:34:26,660 --> 00:34:31,080
And you go in and like, boy, surgeons are methodical.

753
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,920
I brought my mom with me because I was like, mom, you're a nurse.

754
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:36,400
He was like, your mother can go sit over there.

755
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,400
I'm here to talk to you.

756
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,840
And I was like, oh, uh-huh.

757
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,920
And he goes through or your surgeon will go through.

758
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:48,840
Here are all the surgeries available, which for us was bypass sleeve, duodenal switch

759
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:49,840
and something else.

760
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:50,840
I do not remember.

761
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,320
I'm going to tell you all the pros and cons of every surgery.

762
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,340
I'm going to tell you all the risks and complications of every surgery.

763
00:34:56,340 --> 00:35:00,000
And then you, my dear, we'll get to choose what surgery you want.

764
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,120
Now they heavily push bypass heavily, heavily, heavily, heavily.

765
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,120
It's the gold standard.

766
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Do bypass.

767
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,320
I was like, I want sleeve.

768
00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:09,520
And he's like, are you sure?

769
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:10,520
I said, yep.

770
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,320
He's like on the day of surgery, you could walk into the operating room, look me in the

771
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,600
eyes and say, I want bypass.

772
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,280
And you can make that choice.

773
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,480
You get to choose up until the moment we knock you out what surgery you want.

774
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,680
We've made our recommendations, but I will do whatever one you want to do.

775
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,360
And I said, I want sleeve.

776
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,260
And he said, okay, totally fine.

777
00:35:28,260 --> 00:35:30,840
But you have until surgery to make your choice.

778
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,800
But they do heavily push bypass, but I was not over 400 pounds.

779
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,560
I was not pre-diabetic and I had no co-morbidities that would require me to have bypass.

780
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,280
Some of you unfortunately will be required to have it.

781
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:46,240
I was young and I believed that sleeve was non-invasive and that I could do the work

782
00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:47,420
to maintain it.

783
00:35:47,420 --> 00:35:48,420
So I picked sleeve.

784
00:35:48,420 --> 00:35:50,640
And I think Steph, you had the same experience.

785
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:51,640
Exactly.

786
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:52,640
He sat down.

787
00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,400
He had like little diagrams of each.

788
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,400
Yeah.

789
00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,960
But then he also drew them out for me also one at a time.

790
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:01,960
Yep.

791
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:02,960
And then went through all of this.

792
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:03,960
I'll do this.

793
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:04,960
Yeah.

794
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:05,960
And he said, same thing.

795
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,760
They typically recommend bypass, but it was up to me.

796
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,340
I said, I want sleeve.

797
00:36:10,340 --> 00:36:12,080
He said, why?

798
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:13,960
He made me explain why I wanted it.

799
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:14,960
Exactly.

800
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:15,960
Which is fair.

801
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:16,960
And same things you did.

802
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,440
I said, I think it was less invasive, faster recovery typically.

803
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,840
The complications were very similar.

804
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,920
There was a little bit more with bypass risk-wise that I wasn't totally comfortable with.

805
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,800
And then I said, I feel comfortable and confident that I can put the work in.

806
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:34,520
Knowing sleeve typically doesn't lose as much as bypass.

807
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:35,520
It's close.

808
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,520
It is close.

809
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,920
But I said, I feel comfortable and confident that I can put in the work I need to do to

810
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,320
get me where I want to be.

811
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,320
And he said, yep.

812
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:44,560
He goes, you know what?

813
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,760
If that's what you want, that's what we'll do.

814
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:47,760
You change your mind.

815
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,760
That's cool.

816
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:49,760
But here's the paper.

817
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,760
Sign it.

818
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:51,960
Go to the desk.

819
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:57,160
Get your surgery date and your good night.

820
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:58,160
And same thing.

821
00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,560
He didn't shame me for picking sleeve.

822
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,280
He was like, yeah, sleeve gets on their feet quicker.

823
00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:03,440
You do know about the weight loss.

824
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,680
I said, yeah, but everything I saw was that it was minimal.

825
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,240
He's like, yeah, it is.

826
00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,800
The differences are minimal.

827
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,400
Here's the pros and cons.

828
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:17,520
The complications from bypass were just too, nope, not interested in it.

829
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,840
So I was like, this is what we'll do.

830
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:19,840
But he was great.

831
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,840
He was like, great.

832
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:21,840
You're approved.

833
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:22,840
You're signed off.

834
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:23,840
Go to the front desk.

835
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,260
You're going to get your Optifast and you're going to get your date.

836
00:37:27,260 --> 00:37:29,360
So the one thing you will have to pay for is your Optifast.

837
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,000
It's like 120 bucks.

838
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,160
But you go up to the front, you sit down again.

839
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,600
They go, Hannah, March 13th, that's going to be your date.

840
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,800
I was like, oh my God, this is happening.

841
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,440
And they're like, you're going to buy your Optifast.

842
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,760
You want chocolate, vanilla or a mix?

843
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,920
And I was like, I don't know, fucking mix, I guess.

844
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,760
So then you buy your Optifast and they give you all the paperwork.

845
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:49,400
You're going to start your Optifast on this date, it goes till this date.

846
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:54,300
And they give you a binder of stuff, all the paperwork you need for surgery.

847
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:57,040
And then they go, great, we've also booked you in for your pre-op appointments.

848
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:58,040
You'll have two.

849
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:01,140
You need to come in the day before surgery for this pre-op appointment to get all this

850
00:38:01,140 --> 00:38:02,600
blood work and get everything checked.

851
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:06,200
And then there was one a couple of days before that for me where I think I had to meet with

852
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:10,280
the anesthesiologist and he had to get my weight and my medical history.

853
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,640
And I had to talk to the social worker.

854
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,680
That was like, I think a week before surgery.

855
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,200
And then the day before surgery, I did have to go in for my nurse pre-op, which was my

856
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,700
blood work and just a bunch of stuff that they do so that when you come in for surgery,

857
00:38:22,700 --> 00:38:25,840
you come in, you change and in you go.

858
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,320
And for surgery, they gave me the option.

859
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:29,320
I know I'm jumping ahead stuff.

860
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,480
I'll let you talk about the pre-op stuff.

861
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,680
But when it came time to surgery, I came in, I got in my gown and that was it.

862
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,180
We didn't have to do any blood work because we had done it the day before.

863
00:38:38,180 --> 00:38:39,180
Everything was good to go.

864
00:38:39,180 --> 00:38:40,180
They had my bed ready.

865
00:38:40,180 --> 00:38:41,180
I was not staying the night.

866
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:42,480
I was doing day surgery.

867
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,320
I was given the option because I lived close enough to have day surgery.

868
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,680
So I showed up at the hospital for 6 a.m.

869
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,480
My surgery was set for seven on the dot and I was going home at three.

870
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,140
And literally that's what happened.

871
00:38:54,140 --> 00:38:58,100
But the nurses come up to you and they go, would you like to walk into the operating

872
00:38:58,100 --> 00:38:59,100
room?

873
00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:00,100
And I was like, whoa.

874
00:39:00,100 --> 00:39:01,760
They're like, yeah, we don't have to wheel you in.

875
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,440
So they wheel you to the door on your little bed gurney and then they let you get off the

876
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:07,960
bed for me anyway.

877
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,800
And I got to walk into the operating room and it was very surreal.

878
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,280
It was ice fucking cold, ice cold.

879
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:15,640
But I got to look around and it was like a factory.

880
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,120
There was like 13 people in there methodically going over everything.

881
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,100
And I remember being like, this is kind of cool.

882
00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:24,680
You get up on the table, they put a warm blanket on you.

883
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,120
They make you huff oxygen, which like I wasn't.

884
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,580
And they kept going, Hannah, breathe the oxygen.

885
00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:34,640
And I was like, I'm like looking around because I thought the oxygen, thought the oxygen was

886
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,640
knockout gas.

887
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,160
And I was like, I don't want to breathe this.

888
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:38,600
And it was just oxygen.

889
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,460
It was just trying to get my oxygen levels up.

890
00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:43,800
And then you black out and the next thing you know, you're done.

891
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,040
But that was what it was like, like the week before surgery, the day before surgery, and

892
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,040
then the day of surgery in the hospital.

893
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,040
Yeah.

894
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:52,040
Yeah.

895
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:53,840
Similar like after Met Surgeon went out, got all my stuff.

896
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:58,500
They also, for us, they give you all your appointments for the year, booked out on a

897
00:39:58,500 --> 00:40:00,640
paper too, which is nice.

898
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,640
And then yeah, they brought out my Optifast in a garbage bag.

899
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:04,640
Yeah, mine too.

900
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,240
I had a clear garbage bag.

901
00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:10,160
I was like, three boxes of these shakes in this garbage bag that she comes trucking out

902
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:11,160
with.

903
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,360
And I was like, okay.

904
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:18,760
So it's super, like that's when it hit me, when I got my Optifast bag.

905
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:23,080
And I was like, oh shit, like this is going down.

906
00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:24,480
And so yeah, we left.

907
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,160
My pre-op was a little different because I'm further away.

908
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,680
They did mine a little bit further out.

909
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,160
But same thing, I had two pre-ops.

910
00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:36,960
I had the one with the anesthesiologist and that one was funny.

911
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,560
And then I had one with the longer one with the nurse where they did like the blood work,

912
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,040
the history, they go through what's going to happen the day of surgery, what your recovery

913
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:46,040
is going to be like.

914
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,720
They go through all the ins and outs and that kind of stuff.

915
00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:52,920
Mine were, I think two weeks and one week before surgery.

916
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,000
So fairly close.

917
00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,840
And then my surgery was at eight, I got there at 830.

918
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,840
And then my surgery was like-

919
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:03,840
Fast, it moves quick when you're there.

920
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:04,840
It moves you real quick.

921
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,000
So like you show up at 830, you sign in, they take all your info and they tell you to follow

922
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:10,920
this line and go through these doors.

923
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,600
And all of a sudden before you know it, like you go through two doors and you're in pre-op.

924
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,440
And I just looked around, I'm like, this is like some back entrance somewhere.

925
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,440
Like, okay.

926
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:20,440
Craziness.

927
00:41:20,440 --> 00:41:21,440
Yeah.

928
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:22,440
So they took all my stuff.

929
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:23,440
They put you in your little pre-op room.

930
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:24,440
Got a little bit of that gown.

931
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,840
They put you on your gown, then you got to wait.

932
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,760
And then they give you the lovely blood thinner shot.

933
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:30,760
Oh Christ.

934
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:34,480
So I left, I PTSD'd that out of my brain.

935
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:35,480
Oh Christ.

936
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,160
The thing I remembered, I was so, Devin was with me.

937
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,820
And then at one point they came to give me the blood thinner.

938
00:41:41,820 --> 00:41:45,400
For me, my biggest paranoia and concern was the IV.

939
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:46,400
Oh yeah.

940
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,360
I'm not a meal person.

941
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,960
I'm okay with blood work.

942
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,800
I used to not like, I'm not even kidding.

943
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,880
You used to have to like get four people to pin me down.

944
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,040
But then doing a year of fertility treatments, I had blood work like every day.

945
00:41:58,040 --> 00:41:59,040
I had no choice.

946
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:03,000
So I would take blood work, but I'd never had an IV.

947
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Terrified.

948
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,720
And I said to the anesthesiologist, I was like, the only thing that scares me about

949
00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:08,720
this surgery is the IV.

950
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:15,040
The surgery itself, I'm not even, the IVs give like literally keeps me up at night.

951
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,560
So it was really funny because he goes, can I see your hands?

952
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:18,560
And I said, sure.

953
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,440
Cause he goes, typically we put them in your hand.

954
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:21,440
And I was like, I know.

955
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:22,440
That's weird.

956
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:23,440
No, I had mine.

957
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,440
No, in my hand.

958
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,440
And he goes, can I see your hands?

959
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:26,440
And I said, sure.

960
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:30,720
So I went like this and he grabbed my hands and he looks at them.

961
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,800
And so it turns out the anesthesiologist is somebody I went to school with like all through

962
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:34,800
them.

963
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:35,800
Yeah.

964
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:36,800
I remember you mentioning.

965
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,800
But I hadn't seen him since then.

966
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:43,800
So anyway, he's got my hands and he's looking at, he looks at me and he goes, figure something

967
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:44,800
out.

968
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:48,760
And I was like, well, that's not, that's not what I want to hear.

969
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:50,120
I didn't have mine in my hands.

970
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:51,600
I had mine in my arm.

971
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:52,880
He ended up being in my hand.

972
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:56,560
But then I remember I'm in pre-op, got on my stuff, got my booty, my gown and everything

973
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:57,560
on.

974
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:02,760
And then I was so anxious at that point because then you sit there for two hours waiting to

975
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,440
go to surgery.

976
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:08,040
And so then she comes in and she goes, okay, hop on the bed.

977
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:09,340
We're ready.

978
00:43:09,340 --> 00:43:12,280
And I had remembered you saying you walked into the operating room.

979
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,080
And I thought for a minute, I was like, well, I'm going to walk into the operating room.

980
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:17,080
Like what?

981
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,080
So walking into the operating room.

982
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,800
So I was like, fine, whatever.

983
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,080
So I climb on the bed, Devon leaves.

984
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:22,080
The fuckers?

985
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,080
Yep.

986
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,080
I was like, this isn't fair.

987
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,960
So then, yeah, they wheeled you in outside of the operating room.

988
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:28,960
Outside the door.

989
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:29,960
And it's really nice of you to come over.

990
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,520
And she said, hey, we know we're just sterilizing the room.

991
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,360
We're just getting it flipped over for you.

992
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:35,360
You okay?

993
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:36,360
You need anything?

994
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,360
You good?

995
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:38,360
I said, yep.

996
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,360
There was some construction happening outside.

997
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,840
So she was trying to distract me by like, oh, look at what we think they're building out

998
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:42,840
there.

999
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,840
Yeah.

1000
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,120
Then the anesthesiologist came out, put my IV in.

1001
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,800
That was super fun.

1002
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,360
And then he goes, okay, come on.

1003
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:50,360
Yeah.

1004
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:51,360
You get to walk in.

1005
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:52,360
And he goes, come on.

1006
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:53,360
And I looked at him and said, come on.

1007
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:57,920
He goes, well, you need to go into the operating room.

1008
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,920
Yeah.

1009
00:43:58,920 --> 00:43:59,920
Oh, shit.

1010
00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,200
So I walked in and same thing.

1011
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:03,200
People moving everywhere.

1012
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,200
Oh, yeah.

1013
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,280
Like an ant farm.

1014
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,280
People were just going.

1015
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:07,280
Yeah.

1016
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:08,280
And yeah, cold.

1017
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,280
Yep.

1018
00:44:09,280 --> 00:44:10,280
And then they put you on the bed.

1019
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,120
And the other surgeon comes in and introduces herself.

1020
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,120
And she goes, I'm so and so.

1021
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:15,120
I'll be working with the surgeon.

1022
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,120
The assistant.

1023
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,120
Yeah.

1024
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:18,120
Yeah.

1025
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,880
And they put me down at the same time.

1026
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,880
Yeah.

1027
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,880
Yeah.

1028
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,880
I was like, draft?

1029
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:23,880
Okay.

1030
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,800
But then me being me.

1031
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,200
So they go to put the mask on.

1032
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,200
The surgeon comes over.

1033
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,200
He's like, you good?

1034
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,200
Yeah.

1035
00:44:31,200 --> 00:44:32,200
Everything's fine.

1036
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:33,200
Yep.

1037
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,320
And there was, I can't even remember what song it was, but there was some song playing.

1038
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,680
And I remember going, oh, I love this song.

1039
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:39,920
I love the music.

1040
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,920
Our surgeon had great taste in music.

1041
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,360
He goes, do you want me to turn it up for you?

1042
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:45,920
And I was like, sure.

1043
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:51,280
So they put the oxygen mask on and I remember like singing along, trying to like calm myself

1044
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,840
as the anesthesiologist is like, okay, we're pushing the drugs.

1045
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,840
Here we go.

1046
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:56,840
See, they didn't even tell me that.

1047
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:57,840
I just blacked out.

1048
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:58,840
No, he said it was going to burn.

1049
00:44:58,840 --> 00:44:59,840
He's like, I'm going to burn.

1050
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:00,840
I didn't feel a thing.

1051
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:01,840
I'm pretty sure I fainted.

1052
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:06,920
I'm going to be like 90% sure.

1053
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,120
I wasn't breathing the oxygen and just passed the fuck out.

1054
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,600
It weren't the propofol.

1055
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:12,600
It burnt like a mother.

1056
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:13,600
No, I didn't feel it.

1057
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:18,360
But I just remember laying there with the mask on singing and the surgeon, our surgeon

1058
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,920
like being over top of me just laughing.

1059
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:24,760
And I was like, I got, I got the surgeon doing the check.

1060
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:29,960
And when he announces the check, it's like the most regimented, like, so everyone's talking

1061
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,200
and moving and going.

1062
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:37,040
And then they stop to do the check, which is where they literally verbally walk through

1063
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:38,240
what surgery are we doing?

1064
00:45:38,240 --> 00:45:39,520
Who's on the table?

1065
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:40,680
What do we have laid out?

1066
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,400
And not a single person breathes or moves during this.

1067
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:46,400
It's cold as hell.

1068
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,400
It's really cold.

1069
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,480
It's ice fucking cold in that room.

1070
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:54,100
We'll do a whole, we'll split this podcast in two folks because we're not going to go

1071
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:56,960
super long, but we'll talk all about post surgery.

1072
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:57,960
How about next week?

1073
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:03,720
We'll cancel extra, we'll, we'll do another episode about post surgery.

1074
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:06,760
So we'll make this pre, pre and during.

1075
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,680
The funny thing is like you come at, I came out of surgery slightly different than you,

1076
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,960
where my whole face was blue.

1077
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:17,640
And I remember telling Steph, bring face wipes because you look ridiculous.

1078
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,600
I bought them and packed them just because of you telling me.

1079
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,480
I love that you get to walk in because you know what?

1080
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,520
I was nervous, but excited.

1081
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:30,320
And they really try to make you feel like this is such a great, such a great thing you're

1082
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:31,320
doing.

1083
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:32,320
You're here for you.

1084
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,760
You, you physically have decided to do this.

1085
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,400
You're not being forced into surgery because of your health.

1086
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,160
Like you've chosen it and it's really empowering to do that.

1087
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:45,180
The worst part of surgery, the worst part is coming out of anesthesia.

1088
00:46:45,180 --> 00:46:47,960
I had no real pain.

1089
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,360
The heparin shot, the heparin shot burns.

1090
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:51,960
You're going to get a blood thinner shot.

1091
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:52,960
It burns.

1092
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:56,680
I got more than you and that made me so math.

1093
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:58,520
It burns and it leaves a big bruise.

1094
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,200
That was the worst part about before surgery was that heparin shot sucked.

1095
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,280
And IV actually feels less painful than getting blood taken because the needle, like it's

1096
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,160
just, well, I will fight you on that one.

1097
00:47:09,160 --> 00:47:12,040
Oh, I thought it was easier because the nurses knew their shit.

1098
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,200
Cause you were getting surgical nurses.

1099
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,080
So the anesthesiologist did it.

1100
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:17,080
Oh no.

1101
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:18,800
See my nurse did it and it went in here.

1102
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,880
So it goes and away you go.

1103
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:21,880
And I was like, this is dope as hell.

1104
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:23,800
I wanted this one and they wouldn't do it.

1105
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,840
They said it has to be in the hand.

1106
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,000
Got it in the arm.

1107
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000
So everything was great.

1108
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,880
The worst part for me about surgery was coming out of anesthesia.

1109
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,480
I did not like when they woke you up in recovery.

1110
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,920
It's really just, just jarring.

1111
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:39,920
Like I, I, oh my God, I did not like it.

1112
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,200
I somehow was on my side in a fetal position.

1113
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:46,840
I remember that when I woke up and they're calling your name and they're shaking your

1114
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,160
foot and trying to wake you up.

1115
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,800
And I fucking hated that feeling.

1116
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:55,320
It was like a combination between I'm going to faint vomit and beat the shit out of someone.

1117
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,400
It was a weird fucking feeling.

1118
00:47:57,400 --> 00:48:02,560
It only lasts like maybe 30 minutes and then once they think you're good, you go back to

1119
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,680
your room for recovery and all you want to do is sleep.

1120
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:07,980
And I was day surgery.

1121
00:48:07,980 --> 00:48:11,280
So I have my mother at the end of the bed, like, hey, how you doing?

1122
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,040
And I remember I looked at her.

1123
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,080
I looked her dead in the eyes and I went, I need you to fuck off.

1124
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:19,520
I was so like, stop touching me.

1125
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,040
I was so cranky and she was like, I want to go home, get out of bed.

1126
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,920
Like she was shaking my feet being like, let's go.

1127
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,080
And I was like, mom, they're not going to let me go before 3pm.

1128
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,800
And sure enough, the nurse came over and said, she's not going anywhere before 3pm, but they

1129
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,160
get you up and going.

1130
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:37,460
You need to start drinking almost immediately.

1131
00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:41,160
They give you a paper and a little sippy thing and you have to drink every 30 minutes and

1132
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:45,280
market and then halfway through you switch to apple juice and can you tolerate apple

1133
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:46,280
juice?

1134
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:51,040
And then before I was allowed to go home, I had to do laps of the surgical floor and

1135
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:52,040
they stood me up.

1136
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:53,040
They were like, okay, let's go.

1137
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:56,900
And I sat up, they stood me up and I went, folks, I'm about to go right the fuck back

1138
00:48:56,900 --> 00:48:57,900
down.

1139
00:48:57,900 --> 00:48:59,320
And they went, get back in bed, get back in bed.

1140
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:00,940
And I was like, this is not.

1141
00:49:00,940 --> 00:49:04,360
And so they put me back in bed and immediately started me on apple juice because they're

1142
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,760
like, you need some sugar, let's go.

1143
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:08,400
And I was, I did my laps around the hospital.

1144
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:09,400
I was cracking jokes.

1145
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:10,400
They're like, how do you feel?

1146
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,320
I was like, like I didn't have surgery.

1147
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:18,600
Like I feel I'm tired and I'm very cranky and I feel very disoriented, but I think my

1148
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,500
mom feels worse than I do sitting here for eight hours.

1149
00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:22,500
And it was true.

1150
00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:25,440
My mom was horrible because she was miserable sitting there for eight hours.

1151
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,740
So I recommend to like the person picking you up and dropping you off does not need

1152
00:49:28,740 --> 00:49:30,960
to stay the whole time.

1153
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,080
Tell them to drop you off, kiss you goodbye and come back after you're ready to go home

1154
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,680
because they're just going to sit there bored out of their mind.

1155
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,820
They will not discharge you before you do all your tests.

1156
00:49:39,820 --> 00:49:41,680
But that was the worst part for me.

1157
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,200
Literally the worst part was just coming out of anesthesia.

1158
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:45,200
It was horrible.

1159
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:46,260
And the blue.

1160
00:49:46,260 --> 00:49:47,260
I didn't have the blue.

1161
00:49:47,260 --> 00:49:48,820
That's so this is what's weird.

1162
00:49:48,820 --> 00:49:51,160
So I had no surgery.

1163
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:52,160
I could be wrong.

1164
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:58,120
I could be wrong because I remember waking up and bless the nurses bless bless their

1165
00:49:58,120 --> 00:49:59,120
hearts.

1166
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:00,120
I love nurses.

1167
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,760
I woke up and I woke up when I say woke up my eyes were so close, but I woke up and I

1168
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,400
can feel them rubbing my shoulders.

1169
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,360
And they're like, yeah, like literally rubbing my shoulders.

1170
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:11,360
How nice Steph.

1171
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:12,360
How nice.

1172
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:13,360
I got wake up.

1173
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,600
I got the nice shoulder rub, but I could not physically open my eyes.

1174
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:21,640
So I had surgery when I was little like tubes in my ears tonsils, but I never had surgery

1175
00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:22,640
as an adult.

1176
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:23,640
So I had no idea.

1177
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:24,640
Me either.

1178
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:25,640
I had wisdom teeth.

1179
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,400
I've never had surgery in my life.

1180
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:28,400
Wisdom teeth was a light sedation.

1181
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,120
Like it was IV sedation, but really light.

1182
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,100
I'd never been out.

1183
00:50:33,100 --> 00:50:35,880
So I woke up, but I couldn't open my eyes.

1184
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,240
And it was the worst feeling in the world.

1185
00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:39,340
Like panic.

1186
00:50:39,340 --> 00:50:41,560
My eyes would not physically open.

1187
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:42,800
I could hear the nurses talking.

1188
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,140
I could feel them rubbing my shoulders.

1189
00:50:45,140 --> 00:50:49,520
And I had a little bit of gas pain, but not crazy and a little bit of nausea.

1190
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,320
And so the nurse kept saying like, are you good?

1191
00:50:52,320 --> 00:50:53,840
I was like, yeah, a little bit nauseous.

1192
00:50:53,840 --> 00:51:00,120
So they gave me that little bowl thing to hold there, which I had, but I didn't actually

1193
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,120
get sick.

1194
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,640
I just had a little bit of that and she goes, you okay?

1195
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:04,640
I said, I think so.

1196
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:05,920
I opened my eyes for a second.

1197
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,280
I was like, nope, not happening.

1198
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:09,480
Right back down.

1199
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:15,920
And then I remembered after, but I remember opening my eyes and our internal medicine

1200
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:21,760
doctor being put on my bed going like this.

1201
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,520
At the time I was like, who the hell are you?

1202
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:26,520
I didn't get to see any of these people.

1203
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:27,560
I got to see the surgeon.

1204
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,360
The surgeon did come, but I did not get to see.

1205
00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:33,120
I remember him saying, I'll see you soon.

1206
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:38,680
And I just, at the time I remember going, who the hell is this?

1207
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:39,680
Oh yeah.

1208
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,120
You're very, very discombobulated.

1209
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,600
You're so out of it.

1210
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:45,420
I woke up and no one.

1211
00:51:45,420 --> 00:51:51,440
Thank you mother, by the way, who was with me told me that I had blue coming out here.

1212
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:53,040
There was a nurse wiping my mouth.

1213
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,040
Okay.

1214
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:55,520
So she could have been rubbing the blue off.

1215
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,720
What a lovely experience Steph got.

1216
00:51:57,720 --> 00:52:01,120
Shoulder rubs, wipe your face.

1217
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,120
You remember a wet cloth being like rubbed on me.

1218
00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:06,120
Maybe I was drooling.

1219
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:07,120
Maybe it was just drool.

1220
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:08,120
Yeah.

1221
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:12,000
Well, Hannah got shake her feet and get up, get up, get up.

1222
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,000
I couldn't open my eyes.

1223
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,440
And I said to the nurse, I said, I feel like I feel a little bit of gas.

1224
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:18,440
She was, are you in pain?

1225
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,440
And I said, I can feel some gas pain.

1226
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,800
And she goes, oh, well, if you've got gas pain, then let's get you up to your room and

1227
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,160
get you moving.

1228
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:30,160
And I remember laying there going, you haven't opened my eyes.

1229
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,480
And you're talking about getting me moving.

1230
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:33,480
This is what they want.

1231
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:34,480
Yeah.

1232
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:35,480
They wheeled me to my hospital room.

1233
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:36,480
Get up, get going.

1234
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,480
Which I think I was awake for like parts of.

1235
00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:44,320
And I remember the feeling of being wheeled through the hospital when you can't open your

1236
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:48,240
eyes and you're all like discombobulated was horrible.

1237
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:51,720
I remember digging into like the rails of the bed because I just thought like I was

1238
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,520
going to float away or something.

1239
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:55,840
And then yeah, Devin came.

1240
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:59,480
So then the surgeon called Devin to say, you know, surgery's done.

1241
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:00,480
She's fine.

1242
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,480
She's in her room.

1243
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:02,960
So he came, checked on me for a bit.

1244
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,280
And I said, that's the same thing.

1245
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:05,280
I said, just go.

1246
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:08,640
Because I had to stay overnight because I lived too far from the hospital.

1247
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:09,640
Which is fine.

1248
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,440
But I said to Devin, I'm like, just go.

1249
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:13,600
There's no point of you being here.

1250
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:14,600
He was staying in Kitchener anyway.

1251
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:16,120
I'm like, what are you going to do?

1252
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:17,920
Just hang out here and watch me sleep.

1253
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:19,880
And then Hannah, Hannah came to see me.

1254
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:24,240
And I remember I felt so bad because like I wanted to like hang out and talk, but I

1255
00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:26,800
was so tired.

1256
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,800
And I was like, I remember being like, hey, how's it go?

1257
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:31,680
And just like my eyes would close.

1258
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:34,680
And I was like, I can't even walk.

1259
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:38,200
But then yeah, the water comes, the juice comes.

1260
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,120
The juice helps a lot once you get to apple juice.

1261
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:41,120
The juice really helps.

1262
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:42,120
That's sugar.

1263
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,240
I was up and walking.

1264
00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:47,600
And not in a bad way, but they kind of left me on my own.

1265
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:52,520
Once they realized I was holding fluids down and I was able to move, they just kind of

1266
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,520
left me.

1267
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:58,880
And so every half an hour, every so often, I would just get up with my IV pole and I

1268
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,440
would do my laps through and come back, hang out, get up, do my leaps.

1269
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,640
It was pretty boring.

1270
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:08,040
But I had no surgical pain, gas pain up here.

1271
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,320
But I didn't feel like I had surgery.

1272
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:15,440
I had, at one point, the nurse, can I lay on my side?

1273
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:17,160
He's like, do whatever you want.

1274
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:20,880
But I was so afraid because in my head, I was like, just had surgery.

1275
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,800
And I remember, and you have your incisions and I remember rolling on my side and just

1276
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:28,160
being like, what's the big deal?

1277
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,440
There was some heat, but I had no pain.

1278
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,800
I didn't have gas pain, but I think it's because I was day surgery.

1279
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,600
So I was literally on my feet like an hour after waking up.

1280
00:54:36,600 --> 00:54:38,680
Like I was up going, talking, moving.

1281
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,280
Nothing, nothing horrendous.

1282
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:41,440
No, no pain.

1283
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:42,640
It really didn't feel like surgery.

1284
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:47,680
Again, the worst part was coming at a sedation that sucked and is super discombobulating

1285
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:48,840
and I do not like it.

1286
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:51,240
And I don't really want to go through that again.

1287
00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:53,680
But overall, the surgery was less than an hour.

1288
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:54,760
It was super easy.

1289
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:56,560
There were no complications.

1290
00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:58,240
I did not get my face wiped off.

1291
00:54:58,240 --> 00:55:04,280
So what I'm referring to is like my mom, I looked at myself and went, what the hell,

1292
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:05,760
mom could have told me.

1293
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:09,040
She's like, oh, well, that's from like the intubation tube and the tube that goes in

1294
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,120
like down in your throat.

1295
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:15,400
Like they have to put this, it's like iodine almost basically, but it's to make sure you

1296
00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:17,780
don't get bacteria in there.

1297
00:55:17,780 --> 00:55:21,440
So when they pull this stuff out, like it's all still there.

1298
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:26,680
So I had blue stuff coming out my nose for like a week and then you have to cough.

1299
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:31,160
They really need you to cough after surgery because you had, you were under sedation and

1300
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:34,000
you had tubes and stuff, blue stuff, just blue stuff for weeks.

1301
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,360
And I was like, ugh.

1302
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,840
So I told Steph, bring facial wipes because this was brutal.

1303
00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:42,080
And I was like, all right, maybe your surgery was different with mine then jerk.

1304
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,440
But like I clearly was, something was different.

1305
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:50,400
I asked because they told me that when I mentioned the blue, he said, yeah, we do a leak test

1306
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:51,400
after your surgeries.

1307
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:56,560
And he said, we pour dye down your throat and watch it to make sure that there's no

1308
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:57,560
leakage.

1309
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:58,560
That's what it was.

1310
00:55:58,560 --> 00:55:59,560
Yeah.

1311
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,400
Cause the camera's in there and he says, we watch.

1312
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,240
So I expected the same thing.

1313
00:56:03,240 --> 00:56:06,640
Maybe they, maybe they forgot they cut corners on old Hannah.

1314
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:07,640
Okay.

1315
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:09,040
They were like, ah, get her in, get her out.

1316
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,040
She's fine.

1317
00:56:10,040 --> 00:56:11,040
Rump it in her.

1318
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:12,040
Yeah.

1319
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:13,040
Fine.

1320
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:17,520
That's, that's pre surgery and kind of a little bit of surgery.

1321
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:20,780
We will do a whole other episode cause we're getting too long on this one where we'll talk

1322
00:56:20,780 --> 00:56:22,520
about post surgery.

1323
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:27,420
And we will also talk to you about the things we like about this clinic, the things we don't.

1324
00:56:27,420 --> 00:56:32,120
And we're going to talk to you about the other option that we did not learn about till after

1325
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:38,640
and why the clinic that's literally an hour away from us is so drastically different than

1326
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,240
the one that we went to and what our thoughts are on that.

1327
00:56:41,240 --> 00:56:45,240
So we're going to stop it here because I know it's getting long, but that is the deep dive

1328
00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:49,280
into pre surgery and what surgery kind of looked like the day of.

1329
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:54,880
We will do another episode very soon where we will talk about post surgery recovery and

1330
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,100
the differences between our clinic and the other ones and what we like and don't like.

1331
00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:06,240
So thanks for coming along on this extra long special edition of surgery highlights.

1332
00:57:06,240 --> 00:57:07,480
We really do appreciate it.

1333
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,000
We love each and every one of you that's been listening.

1334
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,760
Keep letting us know what you want to hear.

1335
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,840
Also we want to know, do you like an hour?

1336
00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,520
Do you want this to be 30 minutes?

1337
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:16,520
Tell us.

1338
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:20,200
We want to make sure we deliver the format that works best for all of you, for our listeners,

1339
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:24,160
but thanks for trucking along on our surgical journey episode.

1340
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:25,240
Love it.

1341
00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:26,240
Thanks guys.

1342
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,120
Thanks Steph for joining me.

1343
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:29,280
Anytime Hannah.

1344
00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:30,280
It's great.

1345
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:31,280
See you all next week everybody.

1346
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:58,280
Take care.